The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26
CRY LIFE IN RUSSIA.


what N Anerlcan Tourist Saw ln the
Capital ~ the Ukraine.
Kew is fair type OF city life and
architecture In the Ukraine. To the
traveller who crosses the Dnieper and
then turns suddenly round. 1.-THE town
stands out in full panoramic view. On
the left the verdure-clad slopes OF the
mountain sink beneath the waters
edge and form rich background to
the gilded spires, blue demes, and
white battlemented walls of the con-
vent of the Laura Of Petschersk nest
ling within its embrace. A little be-
hind these the deeper-toned sides OF
the ancient fortress guard the town
fike crouching lion. In front the
houses of its maritime and business
sections seem rising out of the water
itself. and above them the church OF
St. Andrew crests its rock with an air
of conquest, like heavenly citadel OF
gold and marble. surmounted by q
cupola and floreated cross sparkling in
the suns rays. These. too, are framed
in by a perfect forest of domes and
bell-towers rising one above the other
into the calm blue skies. The narrow
and twisting streets of the town having
disappeared in the disastrous fire OF
1911, gave space for such magnificent
modern buildings as the Imperial Pal
ace and the University of Saint Wladi-
mir, and now Kew is one Of the most
important commercial centers of the
empire. The scene. however, at an
early hour of the day. in the Krest-
chatik, or chief street of the city be-
trayed the rough and simple habits Of
the townspeople. Artisans in coarse,
shabby clothes, workmen with dirty
boots, patched trousers and short
coats of sheepskin, torn and
greasy, were proceeding heavily
to their work. Shop boys in
light tunics were busy taking down
the shutters, and revealed behind the
counters young women yelled in white
with q blue or red kerchief arranged
coquettishly on the head. Some youths
with the build and dress of Germans,
were drinking cafe au lait and reading
the foreign papers in confectioner
shop. Stiff and solemn, like northern
gods, the portly drivers. in their As
trakan caps or low-crowncd hats. sal
erect on the seat of their little drOskies
drawn by big, strong horses. while
their thick grizzly boards rested OF
their blue or dark green caftans
Through the middle of the street
peasants with bronzed features ant
long hair struggling beneath thei
sheepskin bonnets over their gra..
wooden cloaks, drove large herds o
white oxen adorned with fine blacl
horns bent round over their foreheads
Monks passed along concealing thei
hands within the wide sleeves of thei
black robe, and wearing tall, serge
covered hats, the flaps of which hum
down over their necks like the head
dress of the ancient Assyrian priests
} Slattern servant-girls in short petticoat
and big clumsy shoes carried empt
baskets in their arms as they passed OF
with loud jokes and laughter. to tn
market. The whole scene redOler
with the fumes of tea and tobacco. tn
shops full of embossed arms. QUAR-
bracelets and other ornaments and {
various rich and bright colored stuff
the brilliant metallic hues of the fisl
: and the fruits and of the birds of varie
plumage. exposed for sale. all the:
bore witness to the climate and habit
of life of Little Russia.-Interior.